**Overview-** Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Trust & Security Services (TSS) org, provides integrated, intelligent, and secure services to all of Microsoft’s engineering teams to ingest, protect, and distribute Microsoft products at scale. TSS is chartered with the following responsibilities: + Lead and provide a comprehensive suite of PKI lifecycle management services. We maintain the highest standards of both logical and physical security to ensure that Microsoft’s brand remains trusted and secure. + Codesign all products delivered to Microsoft’s customers. We Sign all software binaries installed on a customer’s machines as well as many of Microsoft’s services components. + Provide cross-industry malware scanning capability to Microsoft. To help ensure that all product teams are compliant with policy, we provide an anti-malware scanning service that is powered by many of the major third-party Anti-Malware engines (including Windows Defender). + Provide regional “digital manufacturing” services to sign product bits, release, store, and distribute those to global customers. + Manage Microsoft’s Product Activation and Licensing services. + We work on massive-scale cloud services that securely distribute software content to billions of Windows and Linux devices. Our technology empowers customers around the world to keep their devices up to date and secure. Our services are actively utilized for Windows, Windows Server, Office, SQL Server, and many other products. Over 250M licenses are issued to our customers every month. Our unique engineering challenges are scale – we have close to 5B+ transactions per month, and a diversity of workloads – we sign and scan binaries, drivers, AAA games, and other digital contents. Ultimately, we are responsible for code signing, anti-malware scanning, and distributing software for all of Microsoft, and what we do has a company-wide impact. If you want to work on innovative, highly available, and massively scalable services, this is the right team for you! **High level overview** As a Senior Software Engineer, you are expected to provide critical thinking and a high degree of technical innovation and attention to detail while serving as a trusted advisor to your project team. You will need to balance many complex and competing technical priorities and be able to actively architect, design, develop, and test solutions. **Responsibilities** + Writing clean, well thought-out design and code with focus on quality, simplicity, & maintainability. + Consider customer’s perspective and experiences when designing systems. + Communicate effectively and partner well with other disciplines of the project team to deliver high quality solutions from envisioning to deployment to live site availability. + Drive, coach and mentor others through design reviews, code reviews, and test case reviews. + Responsible for understanding and adapting to new technologies, tools, methods and processes. + Help to drive current and future state Architecture for the group. + Technology Evaluation and recommendation for application architecture problems. + Creation and adoption of Technology Patterns and Practices. + Work with central IT organization to build better Architectural standards. + Drive Architectural consolidation and simplification. + Role Model Our Microsoft Values: through behaviors and actions, set an example and represent the Microsoft Values of leveraging others work and helping others to be successful. **Personal Screening (Cloud Screening) -** Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Screen: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. **Qualifications** **Experience:** + Total of 12+ years of demonstrated work experience in the Information Systems industry. + 8+ years of solid Design/Development/Testing experience using large/complex application using various Microsoft technologies (C#, .NET, SQL Server, BizTalk, Share Point etc.) + 4 years of system/solution architecture background. **Architecture / Design:** + Extensive understanding and hand on experience in integration, message orientation, event driven and other Enterprise architectural patterns. + Strong understanding of SOA, pros and cons and best practices. + Experience in Broad range of Microsoft tools and technologies. + Extensive business process and UML modeling experience and ability to communicate models effectively to development team. + Good understanding of Enterprise scale technologies and developing large scale out services. + Ability to evaluate architectural options (complexity, performance, high-availability, scalability, durability) and make right recommendation for implementation + Understanding of information architecture and data modeling concepts **Engineering practices:** + Good experience on Requirement/Design/Code Review & Inspections practices + Experience with any of the following testing: performance testing, security testing, privacy testing, accessibility testing, and localization/globalization testing. + Experience using structured design and modeling techniques **Other skills:** + Ability to work in cross functional teams and strong interpersonal skills + Ability to collaborate with and influence various stakeholders without authority + Domain knowledge in one or more vertical industry + Excellent written and oral communication skills + Ability to handle ambiguity and collaborate across multiple groups and disciplines + Sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating and decision making skills + Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills with a solid understanding of testing practices **Skills (nice to have)** + Knowledge on Microsoft Azure technology. + Knowledge on analytics, data mining, data visualization and machine learning + Experience working within a global delivery model + Experience with DevOps model including but not limited to Continuous Delivery, Telemetry, Flighting/Experimentation, Test-Driven Development, and Testing in Production + Deep understanding of agile development practices Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .